Quantitative Verification and Synthesis of Attack-Defence Scenarios Conference

Zaruhi Aslanyan, Flemming Nielson, David Parker

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    Abstract

    Attack-defence trees are a powerful technique for formally evaluating attack-defence scenarios. They represent in an intuitive, graphical way the interaction between an attacker and a defender who compete in order to achieve conflicting objectives. We propose a novel framework for the formal analysis of quantitative properties of complex attack-defence scenarios, using an extension of attack-defence trees which models temporal ordering of actions and allows explicit dependencies in the strategies adopted by attackers and defenders. We adopt a game-theoretic approach, translating attack-defence trees to two-player stochastic games, and then employ probabilistic model checking techniques to formally analyse these models. This provides a means to both verify formally specified security properties of the attack-defence scenarios and, dually, to synthesise strategies for attackers or defenders which guarantee or optimise some quantitative property, such as the probability of a successful attack, the expected cost incurred, or some multi-objective trade-off between the two. We implement our approach, building upon the PRISM-games model checker, and apply it to a case study of an RFID goods management system.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication29th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSF 2016
    Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages105-119
    Number of pages15
    ISBN (Print)978-1-5090-2607-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2016
    Event29th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSF 2016 - Lisbon, Portugal
    Duration: 27 Jun 20161 Jul 2016
    Conference number: 29

    Publication series

    NameIEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF)
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Volume2016
    ISSN (Print)2374-8303

    Conference

    Conference29th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, CSF 2016
    Abbreviated titleCSF
    Country/TerritoryPortugal
    CityLisbon
    Period27/06/161/07/16

    Keywords

    • EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/318003
    • Security
    • Semantics
    • Probabilistic logic
    • Markov processes
    • Model checking
    • EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/2007-2013
    • Games

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